[Info-vax] Search for folders

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sat Jan 27 14:52:26 EST 2024


On 1/27/2024 1:34 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 12:13 -0500, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> What is weird about the Unix directory structure?  It is a simple
>>> tree.
>>>
>>> In what way is it different from the VMS structure other than not
>>> having lots of "roots"?
>>
>> Because I'm familiar with the VMS structure ???
> 
> It now makes sense, each disk has the root folder containing other
> directories and other things.

Yes.

000000.dir is the root directory on each disk.

It is a little bit special that it contains itself.

disk:[foobar]
disk:[000000.foobar]
disk:[000000.000000.foobar]

are all the same.

Arne






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